Dr. Markus Francke holds a PhD in Agricultural Biology and has more than 30 years of professional experience managing projects, consistently focusing on environmental aspects such as circular economy, waste treatment, energy efficiency, environmental conservation and climate change mitigation. Dr. Francke has extensive international experience. He worked as a development manager for new environmental protection projects for a German company in Vietnam, Indonesia, China and Latin American countries. He also served as Vice President of a Chinese company focused on environment and energy, based in Beijing, and as a project manager for the GFA Consulting Group in Indonesia.More recently, he served as Head of Programme Energy at GIZ Uganda and currently works as Head of Programme Energy and Urban Transformation and Director of the project Energy Transition at GIZ Brazil - where he also served as Director of the H2Brasil Project, which concluded in mid-2025 and aimed to expand the green hydrogen market in the country.
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